Whimsical Re-Usable Tags with Yds of Lace/Scrapbook Pages

Here are more of my re-usable tags. Before wrapping in yds of lace the tags were sprayed with Glimmer mist "coffee shop" and blue denim ink for color and shimmer.
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This little bird is covered with German Glitter Glass. See this site for great ideas, Free Glitter Give-aways and Tutorials. I dyed the lace on this tag for an old vintage blue. I picture these adorning gift packages for winter holidays and birthdays!

This snowflake is a pin.

I guess I really love snowflakes. Below my girls are decorating the tree with our glittery white flakes. The snowflakes decorate our house all winter. A metal snowflake adorns the journaling. I used lace and small blue ribbons within the lay-out to match the trimmings on the dresses. This is Ann's Challenge Diva's BlogHop. See my last post for the details.

Christmas Morning is Cheryl's challenge

The paper frame above was painted to match their glittery pjs.

This next challenge is with Lori. I went to a different scrapbook of mine to work on the Fall season for the next great challenge.

The 5x7 picture is in an 8 1/2x11 page protector so it could be tucked under the initial cardstock as a flap. This shows it open for the opposite side.

Then the right side is also a flap, a Creative Memories page that has been cut down. Below shows how it opens to the left to reveal the opposite side pictures and journaling. The size of the flaps depended on the space needed for the pictures and still show the bottom pumpkin border.

The pumpkin is 3 small ovals layered together. See Lori for another example of how to use page protectors as flaps.

Re-Usable Tags/Cloth Bags & Altered Scrapbook Cover

I'm so excited to share that I am Diva of The Month for the Creative Scrapbooking Divas!!!
This means I provide The Challenge for December. There are many challenges going on throughout the site and wonderful ideas for inspiration so it is helps motivate me to get more pages done.

There will be a random winner at the end of the challenge that will be provided with a RAK (random act of kindness)...a special suprise in the mail within the week of picking a winner. Here is a hint...it will include handmade embellishments. You all seem to enjoy the glass-like tags!!

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I am sharing my pictures of my re-usable tags and cloth giftbags. The tags have several yards of fiber and/or lace for the reciever to use in their crafts or gift boxes.
Wouldn't they look lovely adorning a gift bag or package. Stay tuned, I have others with sparkly snowflakes and one with a pink glass glitter bird. The idea of having ribbon and trim wrapped around tags for gifts were inspired by one of my favorite bloggers, Kids Napping? I'm Scrapping!'


Below are my re-usable cloth gift bags. I altered my paper design which is used for adding extra pictures to scrapbook pages, to a cloth design. I had fun adding trim and a big flower.

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This is the cover of 10x10 I altered for our Family Traditions to include all the holidays of the year. There are 5 layers of paper, the word "family" was raised already so I inked it as well as the strip of words at the bottom. There are 2 strips of lace. The heart is two layers of clay which are stamped with words, inked, then I pulled wire through the holes (made before baking). The star and wings are also clay. The wings are colored with perfect pearls. I made the bottlecap by placing a picture on top and heat embossing with UTEE. My favorite element is the cabinet pull that came out of my mom's old kitchen. I wish I had kept the whole bag she had!

Inside Cover, Santa needs to protect the first page from the hardware. He is covering a piece of foam covering the hardware.

My favorite tradition is making peanut butter balls. I have been doing it for years with my mom and cousin for Christmas. Now my girls help and we are hoping to include our friends this year. This book is to hold all the year's family traditions but these pictures show the front of the book and the inside cover along with the p.b.ball recipe handwritten by my mom. It's really old. She thought it was funny when I told her I wanted the original recipe and she had to re-write it for herself. I finally took it out of the bag and made the first page of this book.

It will also hold pockets throughout the book for our Christmas Advent devotions, Bible readings, the Epiphany, holiday journaling, favorite holiday crafts (pictures of all those graham cracker gingerbread houses) gift making ideas, Holy week activities for Easter and one special picture each Christmas.


I had to show you pictures of our peanut butter balls in the making. This will be the next lay-out in the book as it's the first year we had both girls helping Nana.